Pet Shop Boys to headline a Guardian music festival in Second Life
The fact that the Guardian is holding a music festival in Second Life called Secondfest from 29th June to 1st July seems to have got astonishingly little press so far. Maybe I just can't find it. Anyway, here's Alecks Krotoski of the excellent Gamesblog telling us what it's all about at the Guardian website.
It's sounds pretty cool. Here's some guys who are apparently programming one of the tents. Here's some more details from the guys claiming to have reserved the Chill Island. And here's various indiscreet musicians seemingly breaking the news on their MySpace pages that the Pet Shop Boys will be headlining, along with Groove Armada, Underworld and others. Seems to be independently corroborated by enough MySpace musicians who are appearing to be pretty reliable information. Pet Shop Boys are an excellent choice for a SL music fest, having already done some groundbreaking stuff with the computer generated Liberation video.
(HT for the news that the festival exists to my friend Lactose, and I think news of the festival originally broke here.)
Update: there's a bit of press now: the Guardian has announced that Secondfest is happening on the Gamesblog and a search for "Secondfest" on Guardian Unlimited now returns results including this press announcement and Alecks Krotoski's guides to SL and the event (including the one I pointed to yesterday morning). Oh, and Mad has picked it up here. Though think the first people to notice the PSB thing were Shiny Media's TechDigest around lunchtime yesterday.
You may be interested to hear that Second Life is now also about to play host to the world's first Virtual Anti-Fur protest, with (surprise surprise) Stella McCartney and PETA...
There's something very odd about all of it! Although I can't work out why there should be when so many of us have been living virtual lives for the past decade.
Posted by: Abi | June 28, 2007 at 11:34 AM